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The constitutions of the Lander contain similar provisions for the issue of Rechtsverordnun-gen based on Land legal acts. There are only a few rules on the procedure of the adoption of Rechtsverordnungen in the Grundgesetz and the land constitutions. The aim is to enable social groups to settle, under their own responsibility, the matters that concern them. The power to enact Satzungen is, thus, directly linked to the idea of self-government, which ex-plains the importance of Satzungen at local level. The principle of subsidiarity of the constitu-tional complaint as a criterion which may lead to the inadmissibility of a constitutional com-plaint directly challenging a legislative act also has an impact on the interpretation of proce-dural law applicable to regular courts. It has already been said that the BVerfG gives a clear priority to constitutional complaints challenging a judicial decision which leads to an indirect constitutional review of a legal act on which the decision is based via Article 100(1) GG.
The article introduces a research project carried out at the German Research Institute of Public Administration and the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. It examines the development, content and effectiveness of the written and unwritten standards of good administration drawn up within the framework of the Council of Europe (CoE).
The history of German public procurement law is a history of attempts by the German legislator to implement the EU public procurement directives on judicial protection, namely Directive 89/665/EEC of 21 December 1989, as minimally as possible. Paradoxically, the history of German procurement law is also the history of an increased spreading of the model of judicial review in ‘competitive award procedures’ underlying Directive 89/665/EEC
to other administrative procedures.
Here, one can discern mutual fertilization of the discussions on the minimal standards for judicial protection foreseen in Directive 89/665/EEC, as well as a parallel discussion on mini-mal standards (directly derived from the German constitution) for judicial review in competi-tive award procedures concerning the recruitment of public officials.
On this basis, one may discern trends in German case law, administrative practice, and scho-larship towards developing judicial review systems in competitive award procedures for pub-lic procurement beyond the thresholds set by the EU directives. This is relevant for privati-zations, gambling licences, and procedures to grant the right to use public spaces, to name only a few. However, these trends encounter difficulties because the German General Administrative Court Procedure Act and other relevant legislation are not tailored to com-petitive award procedures. This article will analyse these different trends and suggest explanations for them.
The Council of Europe (CoE) has a long-standing record of promoting standards of good administration in the European legal space. Today, these standards encapsulate the entire range of general organisational, procedural and substantive legal institutions meant to ensure a democratically legitimised, open and transparent administration respecting the rule of law. Therefore, these standards are about the ‘limiting function’ of administrative law, that is, its function to protect individuals from arbitrary power, to legitimise administrative action and to combat corruption and nepotism and other ‘diseases’ with which even a democratic polity willing to be governed by the rule of law may be infected. These CoE standards can be described as ‘pan-European principles of good administration.
Lecture at Vilnius University.
§ 1 European Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law: Specialties of EU Administrative Law / EU Administrative Law and ‘Unionalisation’ of National Administrative Law / Functions of Administrative Law / European Administrative Law = EU Administrative Law? / „Speyer Understanding“ of European Administrative Law
§ 2 Administrative Law and the Council of Europe:
Aims, Organs and Instruments of the Council of Europe / European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Impact of Administrative Law /
Other Conventions in Terms of Art. 15 (1) of the Statute of the Council of Europe / Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the CoE Concerning Administrative Law / Concept of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration
Working Group 2.1.: "Common European Principles of Administrative Law and Good Administration”
(2019)
Common European Principles of Administrative Law and “Good Administration” / EU Administrative Law and ‘Unionalisation’ of National Administrative Law / Functions of Administrative Law / European Administrative Law = EU Administrative Law? / ReNEUAL Working Group 2.1:
“Common European Principles of Administrative Law and Good Administration” / Specialties of EU Administrative Law
Limited Right to Appeal in German Administrative Court Proceedings - A (fake) Success Story of what?
(2019)
The following topics are being discussed: The German Court System / Reform of the Access to the Higher Courts of Appeal in 1996 / Reasons given for limiting the Access to the Higher Courts of Appeal in 1996 / How to measure Success of limiting the Access to the Higher Courts of Appeal? / Do the Reasons given for limiting the Access to the Higher Courts of Appeal make sense? / Lessons to be learned from the German Example
- The concept of a three-tiered structure of administrative courts has been developed from 1949 onwards in the Western part of Germany
- Extremely difficult economic situation, need to built up nearly every infrastructure, very complex legal situation - Nevertheless clear decision of the drafters of the constitution to create effective judicial protection in administrative matters as a reaction to the horrors of the Nazi regime and the Stalinist developments in the Soviet occupation zone
- What does this mean for reforms of administrative court proceedings today?
Masterkurs "General Principles of Administrative Law" an der Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU). Im Rahmen des gemeinsamen Masterprogramms der Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tiflis, Georgien) und der Universität Speyer hat Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stelkens in Tiflis erneut die Veranstaltung "General Principles of Administrative Law" angeboten.
Vom 22. bis 23. Juni 2017 fand an der Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam im Rahmen des Forschungsnetzwerks Public Contracts in Legal Globalization ein Workshop zum Thema „The impact of competitive tendering and its regulation on the formation and execution of public contracts and concessions” statt. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung referierte Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stelkens, der Mitglied des Steering Committees dieses Netzwerks ist, über den Ist-Stand in Deutschland.
Although the Council of Europe has been working in the area of administrative law for decades, the body of pan-European general principles of good administration developed by this organisation remains mostly uncharted. This paper attempts to help fill this academic gap by examining the scope and content of the pan-European principles of administrative law stemming from the Council of Europe, with a special emphasis on the principle of good administration. In doing so, the sources of administrative law of the Council of Europe are considered together with the mechanisms by which they penetrate and permeate domestic legal systems. This paper concludes that the work done by the Council of Europe in the administrative field has contributed to a process of harmonisation in its Member States’ domestic law, but that the exact scope thereof has yet to be uncovered and requires further research.